Robin Myers is based in Mexico City, where she works as a translator. Her poems have appeared in The Offing, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, ELKE: A Little Journal, Cabaret Wittgenstein, and New Millennium Writings (as the first-place winner of their 41st contest); her translations have been published in Asymptote, Los Angeles Review of Books, Waxwing Literary Journal, and the Beloit Poetry Journal. The poem published here is part of an unpublished manuscript, written in the voice of an aging unnamed persona in an unnamed place.